Chicago’s Afro-American Patrolmen’s League worked to increase the ranks of black police officers and stop police abuse in the city’s African-American community. Today, many in the community say the system matters more than the race of the police officer.

With “right to work” rhetoric increasing in Illinois and threatening workers — especially blacks and Latinos — who benefit from organized-labor movements, it’s worth recalling the first proponent of this anti-union agenda.

West Humboldt Park is a working class community with a rich Puerto Rican heritage — although demographics are shifting as gentrification creeps westward. Take a walk through the neighborhood and you will find a thriving arts community, residents who are engaged in anti-violence efforts and longtime business owners who hope things don’t change too much.

Ian Haney-López, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading scholar of critical race theory, talks with Editor and Publisher Susan Smith Richardson about his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”

ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” stirs mixed emotions for some Chicago-area Asian-Americans, who are glad the show features their culture, but worry that falling back on stereotypes may do more harm than good.

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Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but grounded in Chicago, one of the most segregated cities in the nation and a bellwether for urban policies.